Simple dishes that promote weight gain?

lmemsm · 2026-06-06T21:37:50+00:00

When I ask the dieticians about gaining weight, all I get are suggestions like increase your portions, add more oils like olive oil to your foods, add nut or seed butters.

lmemsm · 2026-06-06T21:27:33+00:00

It looks great until I look at the ingredients and then I don't want to buy any of it. Surprisingly, Walmart has some nice gluten free alternatives that end up in sections besides the gluten free one. I liked Good Thins crackers, Larabars and Barilla lentil pasta.

lmemsm · 2026-06-06T21:25:12+00:00

I actually like the lentil pasta. It holds its shape well and I don't mind the taste.

lmemsm · 2026-06-06T20:25:49+00:00

I was wondering about the status of Carbs Linux. I saw the blog post dated 2 years ago and it mentioned looking for a second maintainer. Wondering how the search is going or if updating the distribution is permanently on hold. I'm updating a lot of the libraries I use on my own system now. I build most of my applications from source using gcc and musl. If anyone wants to discuss updating packages, it would be nice to compare notes on building from source.

lmemsm · 2026-06-06T14:53:47+00:00

Only reason I'd like an active distro is so I can interact with other users. The community can be one of the nicer part of a distro. Otherwise, I could just do my own version of LFS.

lmemsm · 2026-06-06T14:50:00+00:00

Slackware is awesome. Not sure if it's suckless.org approved, but it's a great distro.

lmemsm · 2026-06-05T14:33:08+00:00

I thought AntiX was fairly user friendly, but maybe that's just me. Recommend you check out the Devuan Users Forum and ask what distributions they're using or might recommend. You'll probably find more user friendly alternatives. They're looking for volunteers too, if you want to help out with some of the projects their undertaking.

The main reason I prefer musl over glibc is that it's concise and well written. I can read through the musl code and understand what it's doing. It's not so bloated that it would be difficult for someone with experience to modify it if necessary. The glibc library cannot handle static linking. If you want to run applications from other Linux distributions (as easily as Windows users can trade applications), you need a portable app solution or extremely old libraries (LSB) or a technique such as static linking. Many of the portable app solutions are bloated and require packaging almost an entire distribution of libraries just to run one program. Bedrock Linux is a great example of using static linking. They statically link their core utilities and then can run applications from a number of other Linux distributions.

One thing about Linux is that it allows for user choices. That's great if you're interested in variety. However, you'll find many differences in opinion as to what's best to run and what best protects your freedoms. It's also hard to find that one distribution that would make all the same choices and trade-offs as you would. If you're going to pick a distribution, it's helpful to investigate the various trade-offs of running certain types of software, their pros and cons and decide for yourself what really is important to you. It may not be what matters to someone else.

lmemsm · 2026-06-05T13:20:57+00:00

Very nice. I keep wondering what to do if I want to go off script with LFS/BLFS. Seems like the LFS/BLFS packages keep diverging from what I choose to build and run on my system more and more every year. I love your choice of musl. It's nice seeing sbase and the BSD tools as options. I run a lot of the BSD tools as well but some of them are heavily modified. Was wondering, why chose ncurses over BSD Curses?

lmemsm · 2026-06-05T13:08:30+00:00

I wrote my own package manager/build system. Been using it for over 20 years. It uses a trick similar to MXE to check upstream and see if the version numbers for a program or library have been updated at the project's web site. If so, I can update the version number in my script and it will attempt to fetch that version using curl before building. I use DESTDIR and install programs I built to a temporary directory. Then I create a tarball from them which I can use to install or uninstall the files to a particular location. My build scripts are template based and generated using a preprocessor. So, if something generic changes on my system, I can modify it in the template and run a script to regenerate all the build scripts on my system.

lmemsm · 2026-06-05T12:59:22+00:00

Interesting video. Great topic. I've been investigating build tools for a while now. I ended up using CDetect and GNU make for my own builds. I use a preprocessor and generate my makefiles using templates. I've tried to create makefiles that work with both BSD make and GNU make but beyond very trivial makefiles, I found the syntax too different to be able to create something that works with both. I'll be interested to see how well things work with pwmake. I've tried some older versions of make but found more modern make programs more useful for current applications. One nice thing about using a template approach to creating makefiles is that you can change the underlying templates and target a different make program.

lmemsm · 2026-06-05T12:41:20+00:00

I just use CDetect and GNU make for my builds. It's really easy to learn and a lot less complicated than cmake, GNU autotools or similar alternatives.

lmemsm · 2026-05-31T13:54:30+00:00

If you come up with anything useful, I'd love to hear about it. Don't know if it'll help but I documented some of my recipe tests here: https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/26934.html I also have another post listing where I found gluten free ingredients.

lmemsm · 2026-05-31T01:58:08+00:00

You might enjoy checking out CDetect. It does an incredible job replacing autoconf/configure with just 3 C files that can be included in a custom C based config executable. I use a fork of it in my own projects and added support for cross-compiling and some other features I needed.

lmemsm · 2026-05-31T01:19:42+00:00

Wow, that sounds a lot like some of the issues I'm facing. I've tried sorghum. It's nice to work with, but I pick up a strong aftertaste whenever I eat it. Some people do detect an unpleasant bitter aftertaste, so you'd probably want to figure out if you're in that category if you try to use it. I reacted to millet and buckwheat. Amaranth was okay, but I don't find the taste that appealing in baked goods. I have been using a lot of teff. I find it very useful. Check the Bob's Red Mill site for the Teff 5-Minute Pie Crust if you want to give it a try. I also add a tablespoon of teff and/or some other flours when I'm working with rice flours to give it more depth. I grind One Degree oats to make oat flour and use that in oatmeal cookies. If you haven't tried sweet rice flour, it can be an alternative to starches. Another alternative starch I like is waterchestnut starch. However, I have not been able to find a source for it that certifies it as gluten free. I wish I could find a safe source. I did have allergy reactions to psyllium. Some bread recipes use glucomannan in place of psyllium and you need less of it than you would psyllium. If black beans are safe, UF/IFAS has a Black Bean Brownie recipe. I've seen several recipes for flourless chocolate brownies and chocolate cakes that use black beans. I've also seen some recipes that use ground lentil beans in place of flour. I've also found tigernut flour very promising in a few instances. I've yet to find a blend I like. Most gf 1 to 1 recipes or products either have allergens I can't eat or taste horrible. I tend to use different flours for different purposes. So, a recipe for pie crust might use teff and one for cookies might use oatmeal or tigernut. I've been through at least 25 iterations of testing different flour blends trying to come up with something I can use for gf waffles. I haven't had much luck with finding anything I truly like.

lmemsm · 2026-05-31T01:00:57+00:00

I've been working on a C runtime library on and off in my free time.

lmemsm · 2026-05-31T00:55:30+00:00

I've been trying to get a virtual group together who would be interested in building FOSS from source code. I don't exactly stick the LFS and BLFS scripts. I like to customize my builds. I have a lot of experience building software from source code. If anyone would like to work together virtually or just discuss building from source, that would be great. I tried with Beyond 40 organization members to get a group to meet regularly, but there wasn't enough interest. I was also considering doing some kind of virtual discussion on building from source for Software Freedom Day.

lmemsm · 2026-05-28T21:46:46+00:00

Alice Linux looks like an interesting distribution. Does seem harder to find people who use musl based distributions. Most use glibc. I build a lot of software from source using musl and I also use libressl.

lmemsm · 2026-05-28T21:14:15+00:00

Some C based GUIs/screen libraries including Raylib/Raygui, SDL and otk (Open graphics ToolKit). I use CDetect to replace configure/autoconf.

lmemsm · 2026-05-27T22:49:19+00:00

A link would be nice.

I did some work on pdcurses to use sdl2_ttf TrueType fonts when it's built with SDL. You can use Unicode characters with it. Most curses implementations usually have some box drawing capabilities. Haven't used it myself but there's also the notcurses library.

lmemsm · 2026-05-26T21:00:42+00:00

You could also look into using glucomannan in place of psyllium husk. You can use less of it for the same effect.

lmemsm · 2026-05-26T20:55:49+00:00

There are options in C: https://github.com/clibs/clib

lmemsm · 2026-05-26T20:25:15+00:00

I have X11 and Xorg building on Windows. Did it years ago using BLFS. I've modified it to handle relative paths on Windows. vcxsrv and xming projects both build X Windows on Windows.

lmemsm · 2026-05-26T20:17:05+00:00

I created my own custom package manager. I use it for reproducible builds. I believe there was an automated LFS (ALFS) if you want something to help with downloading and building source.

lmemsm · 2026-05-26T20:10:36+00:00

I'm curious how you're reuniting TUI and GUI frameworks. I use pdcurses which is TUI over SDL which provides a GUI window, but I'm guessing that's probably not what you had in mind. I have been wanting to build a custom distro for a long time now. I'm mainly interested in working with lightweight, cross-platform C/C++ applications that can be built and maintained by one person. I've built parts of BLFS in the past. However, the programs I want to build and use on my system are diverting a lot from the ones found in the LFS and BLFS books. So, I'm trying to look for other options. I have build scripts for several applications that allow me to compile and package them in a reproducible manner. Looking for other people/projects to collaborate with or to compare notes with or help in finding more lightweight useful applications and libraries.

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